This is an analysis of the poem Protest that begins with:
Who say my hea't ain't true to you?
Dey bettah heish dey mouf....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: aXXXbXbX bXbXXXXb cacaXXXa
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 8,8,8,
- Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 11111101 110111 11111111 010101 1111011110 111111010 111111110 110111 11111001 111111 11010111 110011 111101110 111101110 1111110010 1000101 11110111 111101 11110111 1110111 111111010 110111110 1101011110 111111
- Amount of stanzas: 3
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 261
- Average number of words per stanza: 54
- Amount of lines: 24
- Average number of symbols per line: 32 (medium-length strings)
- Average number of words per line: 7
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; i is repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word i is repeated.
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- summary of Protest;
- central theme;
- idea of the verse;
- history of its creation;
- critical appreciation.
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